Trading and Buying Games - an IFDB Poll
by Emily Short
RSS FeedGames where a significant portion of the gameplay involves buying, selling, or trading items, especially if there are tactical advantages associated with different objects and the player has to decide which things to acquire for what purposes.
| Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian 7 votes "Trade and buy the coolest of items." [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]...  Vote for this game | |
| Skybreak!, by William Dooling 4 votes "Unusual trading with unusual goods" [+]... "Detailed and diverse." [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty 3 votes "Can buy and sell at various shops, often with genuine tactical/story effect." [+]... "Appraising, buying, selling, and trading collected items" [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad 2 votes "I remember this one letting you know if a purchase was cheap or expensive, but avoided exact dollars and cents accounting." [+]... "Offers the player..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Sunless Sea, by Failbetter Games 2 votes (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian 2 votes (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Gotomomi, by Arno von Borries 2 votes "Bartering with NPCs is key." [+]... "This game is more..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Let's Explore Geography! Canadian Commodities Trader Simulation Exercise, by Carter Sande 2 votes "Trading and buying is what this game is all about" [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Negotis: Book 1, by Robert DeFord 2 votes "Immediately thought of this game; cool idea but bad design." [+]... "Negotis is all..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Wraith Blaster, by Ken Dibble 1 vote "(Suggested for..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Illuminismo Iniziato, by Michael J. Coyne 1 vote "Items to buy, sell and repair." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| My Girlfriend's An Evil Bitch, by Divarin 1 vote "you sell items..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| El trono de Inglaterra, by José Baltasar García Perez-Schofield and Selena 1 vote "You have to buy supplies before your quest." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Scavenger, by Quintin Stone 1 vote "Scavenger..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| The Lost Children [1997 PAW version], by Larry Horsfield 1 vote "ADRIFT version has lots of stuff to buy" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| The Egg and the Newbie, by Robert DeFord 1 vote "The game is a..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Redemption, by Sam Ruby 1 vote "Great Eamon game" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| They Perished, by Bret Sepulveda 1 vote (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Onaar, by Robert DeFord 1 vote "You can buy and sell items. You can also enchant food items and sell them for profit. " [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Taipan, by Art Canfil 1 vote "Sort of dubious..." [+]... Vote for this game | |